Active-TV Technology for iPhone and iPod touch

Navigate YouTube

Navigate YouTube available at iTunes App Sore

An easy to use iPhone and iPod touch App that enables both new and advanced YouTube users to get the best from YouTube.

Browse video Standard Feeds, Categories, Channels and Playlists. Then organize new videos into your own favorites and playlists. Make playlists private or public. Subscribe to other user's playlists and video collections for future viewing. Subscribe to videos matching search-words.

Search for new videos tagged for your language or geographical region, using local keyboard. Explore for new videos via easy switching of user ID to the owner of interesting videos - then explore their world.

All actions are kept in sync with PC, Mac or Apple-TV access to YouTube. Available at Apple App Store.

active-TV technology for PC

Windows PC based home network

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Build your own TV channel from torrent-delivered video

There are plenty of sources of torrent-delivered video available, but how can a person with little or no engineering skills get these videos delivered directly to their living room TV? Well, it is now possible to do so with a new configurable TV-website that is viewable on any Active-TV-enabled networked TVs, such as those TVs connected to a D-link DSM-520.

For those among you who have the right to download video torrent files (i.e. peer-to-peer sharing, P2P), and find it convenient to view and select available torrents from the TV rather than the PC, the new TV-website makes it possible to select and start a torrent, monitor its progress, and finally watch the downloaded video – all from the TV. Hence, there is no need for a PC keyboard to browse and select a particular torrent, let alone attach a PC to the TV.

As discussed in a previous blog article, when accessing P2P video, the system relies on a networked-PC using uTorrent to assist the TV with torrenting. In other words, the TV UI remotely drives the PC’s uTorrent engine.

Available videos are listed at the TV according to an XML configuration file, 'torrentSites.xml'. A user must build their own torrentSites.xml file which is stored on their PC. An example is provided to help with understanding the layout and syntax.

Possibly following a broadcaster trend, Norwegian Broadcaster (NRK) makes programmes available for free via torrent distribution. US channel Democracy Now! also distributes programmes via torrent. Canada’s public broadcaster CBC distributes the “Canada's Next Great Prime Minister” shown. Partnering with CBC, the bittorrent aggregation site Mininova supplies a DRM-free copy of the video torrent file. The required torrentSites.xml entry for the NRK and DN! video is below:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><rss><channel>

The two entries or items in the above torrentSites.xml file, appear in the TV menu as shown in the screen-shots below. They are shown on the left-side menu.

Torrent sites make their torrents available via lists which are distributed via RSS. These lists generally conform to a similar format. This similarity enables torrenting tools such as uTorrent to generally access RSS data. Similarly, the TV-website has managed to “read” the RSS address provided by the XML <link> element and so lists the available torrents on the right-side menu.

Some torrent distribution sites support searching for a particular torrent. This requires search-words to be passed to the torrent site. To support searching, an XML entry such as the example below must be used.

The use of "search=" in the <link> entry indicates that a pop-up keyboard will be used when the menu entry is selected. This enables search-words, such as "election news" to be entered on the TV screen. The keywords replace the XML token “MATCH” in the formation of an RSS url which will list, in our case, only torrents containing the name “election news”.

Before the TV can “talk” to the uTorrent engine running on the PC, it is important that they both be configured correctly; set-up the PC first. As previously described, uTorrent “Preferences” must be set to support an “incoming connection”.

Conveniently for us, the uTorrent Web UI interface enables remote login to the torrent PC. The remote login ID must be set to “active-TV” with password “pass”. This is the initial password used by the TV-website, but it can be changed to your own preference; however, make sure the ID on the uTorrent TV-web is set to the same password. Use the TV menu entry “Change uTorrent Pass” to accomplish this – change the PC-side password first.

Before using the “My Active uTorrents” TV menu entry, make sure the PC and TV-side uTorrent passwords are set correctly. The “My Active uTorrents” enables reviewing the progress of currently active torrents. When download reaches 100%, the video can be viewed on the TV by simply using the TV’s IR remote to click on the torrents menu entry.

For convenience, the TV UI reports if a video has already been viewed after prior download completion. This helps keep a track of what you have been watching,

The uTorrent TV-website is very flexible given the ability for a user to define their own torrentSites.xml. Note that it is entirely the responsibility of the user to ensure that they have the legal right to access any video or content made available by the torrentSites.xml file they make use of. For more information about a users’ copyright responsibilities and DSM-520 operaton, please see the D-link support site. A beta version of the above TV-website is available for download and testing from this blogsite (see Free TV-web Channels). (Also see newer blog entry "Adding Live TV streams to my living room TV".)Daniel Mann

48 comments:

Weekends to peopleig2tmean that they can have a two-day wowgold4europe good rest. For example， people gameusdcan go out to enjoy themselves or get meinwowgoldtogether with relatives and friends to talk with each storeingameother or watch interesting video tapes with the speebiewhole family.Everyone spends agamegoldweekends in his ownmmoflyway. Within two days,some people can relax themselves by listening to music， reading novels，or watchingogeworld films. Others perhaps are more active by playing basketball，wimming ormmorpgvipdancing. Different people have different gamesavorrelaxations.I often spend weekends withoggsalemy family or my friends. Sometimes my parents take me on a visit to their old friends. Sometimesgamersell I go to the library to study or borrow some books tommovirtexgain much knowledge. I also go to see various exhibition to broadenrpg tradermy vision. An excursion to seashore or mountain resorts is my favorite way of spending weekends. Weekends are always enjoyable for me.

Today,we are proud to announce the launch of the new wedding support service sell ffxi gil,packed with features sure to sell ffxi gils delight adventurers across Vana'diel looking to exchange eternal vows with their beloved!Responding to player demands for greater customization,the new service will grant brides and grooms freedom in choosing location,timing,dialogue,and sell Final Fantasy XI Gil more for their ceremony,allowing them to create a truly memorable event all their own.Information on all the features,including in-game sell ffxi gil item vendors and wedding certificates,can be found on the new wedding support site,so head on over sell ffxi gils and get started planning the wedding of your dreams sell Final Fantasy XIGil!

Those who possession of to the official faiths allege that the control of their faith rests on leak, and that pronouncement is given in the pages of books and accounts of miracles and wonders whose complexion is supernatural. But those of us who have desire discarded the belief in the miraculous quiet are in the self-possession of revelations which are the purpose of faith. We too entertain our revealed religion. We procure looked upon the lineaments of men and women that can be to us the symbols of that which is holy. We acquire heard words of sacred understanding and really viva voce in the human voice. Excuse of the domain there experience come to us these experience which, when accepted, give to us revelations, not of supernatural religion, but of a unexceptional and fated credence in the spiritual powers that animate and dwell in the center of [a person's] being.

requirements for good ebook readers http://audiobookscollection.co.uk/it/Professional-Search-Engine-Optimization-with-PHP-A-Developer-s-Guide-to-SEO/p184807/ kamsutra ebook free english or hindi [url=http://audiobookscollection.co.uk/fr/Business-Intelligence-for-the-Real-Time-Enterprises-First-International-Workshop-BIRTE-2006-Seoul-Korea-September-11-2006-Revised-Selected-Applications-incl-Internet-Web-and-HCI/p208870/]love is in the stars ebook[/url] ebook hacking

I ωas curious if you ever thought of changing thе layout of youг ωebsitе?Ӏts vегy well ωrіtten; I love what youve got to saу.But mауbe yοu could а little more іn the wаy οf content ѕo ρeoplе could connect ωith it better.Youve got an аwful lot оf tехt for only having οne or 2 pictures.Maybe you could sрасe it out bettеr?

Hiya! I κnow this is kinda off topіc nevertheless I'd figured I'd аsk.Would yоu be interestеԁ in exсhanging linkѕ or maybe guest аuthoring a blog post οr vice-νеrѕа? My websіtе cοvers a lot оf the same tοpіcѕ аs yours and I bеlieve we could greatlу benеfit from each other.Ιf уou might be interested feеl free to shοot me an email.I lοok fοrωaгԁ to hearіng from you!Excellent blog by the way!

A motivating discussion is definitely worth comment.I do beliеνе that you ought to write more on this subject, it may not be а tabοo matter but generally folκs don't talk about these issues. To the next! Many thanks!!

I tend not to write many responses, however I looked through a few responses on this page "Build your own TV channel from torrent-delivered video".

I actually do have 2 questions for you if you do not mind.Is it just me or does it look as if like some of the comments look like they are left by brain dead people?:-P And, if you are writing on other social sites, I would like to keep up with you. Could you make a list of all of your social networking sites like your twitter feed, Facebook page or linkedin profile?

Navigate YouTube

Free Windows download

Want to see how it Active-TV Technology for the PC looks on a TV, then downloadthe PC emulation of TV operation. D-Link's site also includes active-TV technlogy support for the DSM-520. (Windows XP or MCE). Navigation is via the left-right arrows and F12 is used for 'back'. The bundle uses an easily changed example menu system.

Active-TV technology enables the Set-Top Box (STB) or TV to display TV-web with the same universal access and opportunity available to PC with PC-web.

Active-TV technlogy uses the same PC browser to process PC-web and TV-web pages, but a browser plug-in sends the TV-web image to a networked thin-client for display on TV.

A networked home PC or laptop computer which assits with formating the TV-web image, is known as an Extended-PC.

Video can be streamed directly to the STB or TV; or it can pass througth the ExtendedPC, where it may be reformated. The video encoding format (CODEC) may be changed (transcoded) by the Extended-PC to accomidate STB or TV capabilities.

Build a TV-web channel

A networked PC and TV supporting Active-TV Technology enables viewing of TV-websites. Download a free TV-web channel below. They can be reused when constructing a new channel. Documentation is also available. Make sure all files (such as C:\Program Files\Common Files\TV-Websites) have permission for all Users to access.